Limiting Lateral Movement

When an identity is compromised, traditional access models often rely on permissions granted days, months, or years ago. As a result, attackers can use the compromised account to move laterally across applications, APIs, and sensitive data.

Dynamic, runtime authorization continuously evaluates every access request against real-time business and security context. Instead of granting broad access based on authentication alone, authorization policies determine what resources can be accessed and under what conditions.

Authentication Verifies Identity. Authorization Limits Impact.

Multi-factor authentication is a critical security control, but it does not determine what a user can access after they authenticate. If credentials are compromised, attackers often inherit the same permissions as the legitimate user.

Policy-driven authorization complements MFA by making fine-grained access decisions at runtime. Even when an identity is compromised, authorization policies can restrict access based on risk-levels and various attributes. This helps contain attacks, reduce lateral movement, and minimize the blast radius of identity breaches.